The first day of the 2014 High School Summer Program began with breakfast in St. Joseph Commons, followed by a student orientation session in the library. There, the director of the summer program, Dr. Christopher A. Decaen, introduced the students to the program’s tutors — all members of the Thomas Aquinas College teaching faculty. The group then posed for a photo by the Guadalupe Fountain before heading across the quadrangle for a morning Mass in Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel.

Slideshow: First morning

Slideshow: First morning

Slideshow: First morning

Slideshow: First morning

Slideshow: First morning

Slideshow: First morning

Slideshow: First morning

Slideshow: First morning

Slideshow: First morning

Slideshow: First morning

Slideshow: First morning

Slideshow: First morning

For the first day’s classes, students studied Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex and Plato’s Euthyphro. Then came an afternoon of sports and fun on the campus athletic fields: